Emergency department
Emergency Department Reliance: A Discriminatory Measure of Frequent Emergency Department Users
... High emergency department (ED) use has previously been defined as a person’s having a large number of ED visits, implying that all frequent users are the ...
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Emergency department crowding and provider workload
... for emergency departments to redirect focus of blame from humans in order to understand how the design of the system as a whole contributes to ...in emergency department research requires that the ED ...
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Death of a Child in the Emergency Department
... 784.e3 Emergency Nurses Association. Position state- ment. Emergency nursing resource: family presence during invasive procedures and re- suscitation in the emergency ...IL: Emergency Nurses ...
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Death of a Child in the Emergency Department
... When emergency clinicians are faced with an imminent child death in the emergency department (ED), they must carry out many complex tasks. They must treat a patient experiencing an acute and evolving ...
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Death of a Child in the Emergency Department
... the emergency department ...the emergency physician must be prepared to respond to the emotional, cultural, procedural, and legal issues that are an inevitable part of caring for ill and injured ...
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Assessment of maxillofacial trauma in emergency department
... In the study MF injuries were diagnosed after evaluation of the patients’ history, physical examination, forensic record and radiological studies. Patients with isolated nasal and dentoalveolar fracture were excluded and ...
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Emergency department triage: an ethical analysis
... and emergency services have two compo- nents; firstly evaluation and then, ...an emergency department believe they have a problem requiring immediate medical ...the emergency service is being ...
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Abortion-related emergency department visits in the United States: An analysis of a national emergency department sample
... Methods: We used a retrospective observational study design using 2009 – 2013 data from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, a nationally representative sample of U.S. ED visits from 947 to 964 ...
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Professional Liability in a Pediatric Emergency Department
... malpractice claims were uncommon in our emer- gency department; (2) a disproportionate number of claims occurred when an attending physician was not in the emergency department; (3) no o[r] ...
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Emergency medicine in Zanzibar: the effect of system changes in the emergency department
... We have described a small quality improvement project in a poorly resourced, overcrowded and underfunded emergency department in Zanzibar. The changes were achieved with minimal external funding. This was ...
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An Epidemiologic Study on Emergency Department Mortality
... Despite numerous shortcomings, it seems that data are available in this regard in Iran. Mortality rate has been reported to be about 320 to 350 thousand individuals per year and the most common cases with the rate of ...
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Headache in an Italian pediatric emergency department
... Abstract The objective of this study was to assess epi- demiology, diagnostic work-up, treatment and follow-up of children presenting to emergency department (ED) with headache. Records of visits for ...
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Buprenorphine in the emergency department
... Emergency department physicians were asked to identify patients in opioid withdrawal and to use a ran- dom number generator application on their cell phones to randomize participants to receive either ...
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A framework for measuring quality in the emergency department
... the Emergency Department ...for emergency care should focus on the part of the healthcare system that emergency clinicians can influence, it is important that indicators relate to the final ...
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Chronic fatigue syndrome in the emergency department
... Abbreviations: CFS, chronic fatigue syndrome; ED, emergency department; No_ED, did not go to an ED because of symptoms they believed were related to CFS; Yes_ED,.. did go to an ED becau[r] ...
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Analysis of Triage Application in Emergency Department
... the emergency department such as limited physical space and availability of bed space in the intensive care unit, increasing proportions of geriatric individuals in the general population, personnel ...
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Access block and emergency department overcrowding
... Ambulance bypass or diversion is the situation where ambulances cannot deliver patients to the closest hospital as a result of overcrowding in that hospital. It has been identifi ed especially in urban areas as one of the ...
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Pediatric Readiness in the Emergency Department
... hospital emergency departments (EDs) by virtue of ...effective emergency care for ...of Emergency Care in the US Health ...within emergency and trauma care systems vary locally, regionally, ...
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Forecasting Models of Emergency Department Crowding
... We contend that three chief requirements of a useful ED crowding forecasting model are 1) that it can be used at different EDs with varying operations environ- ments, 2) that it performs significantly better than the ...
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Ultrasonography in the emergency department
... the emergency medicine (EM) ...adult emergency department. Bedside ultrasonography in the emergency department shares clinical applications with critical care ultrasonography, including ...
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